Battle of Roses

Battle of Roses
薔薇合戦
Directed byMikio Naruse
Written by
Produced byShigeki Sugiyama
CinematographyHaruo Takeno
Edited byHisashi Sagara
Music bySeiichi Suzuki
Production
companies
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 28 October 1950 (1950-10-28) (Japan)[2][3]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Battle of Roses (Japanese: 薔薇合戦, romanized: Bara kassen) is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the pre-war novel Bara kassen by Fumio Niwa.[2][3]

Cast

Reception

Naruse biographer Catherine Russell rated Battle of Roses a lesser work by its director, which seemed "to have been hastily put together, with some surprisingly abrupt editing and a rather poor script […] drawing on the sensationalism of the “liberated” woman.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ The Eiga Geijutsu Kyōkai ("Film Art Association") was a film production company founded by Naruse, Akira Kurosawa, Kajirō Yamamoto and Senkichi Taniguchi, which existed from 1948 to 1951.[1]

References

  1. ^ Wild, Peter (2014). Akira Kurosawa. Reaktion Books. p. 140. ISBN 9781780233437.
  2. ^ a b "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b "薔薇合戦 (Battle of Roses)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. ^ Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4290-8.


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